Pilot of Mpowerment for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (YMSM) in Beirut

Pilot of Culturally Tailored Mpowerment for HIV Prevention Among YMSM in Beirut

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02918799

Enrollment

226

Registered

2016-09-29

Start date

2016-08-31

Completion date

2020-03-31

Last updated

2020-10-06

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Conditions

HIV

Brief summary

This project will adapt and pilot a multi-level, community-based intervention to promote HIV prevention and sexual health among young men who have sex with men in Beirut.

Detailed description

Mpowerment (MP) is an evidence-based community-level, structural, social and behavioral intervention for HIV prevention developed for YMSM that targets individual and community empowerment and mobilization, self-affirmation, sexual self-knowledge, and creation of a supportive social environment. MP has been widely used in the U.S., but not in a mostly Muslim setting. This project will adapt and pilot MP for the sociocultural issues facing YMSM (age 18-29) in Beirut. There will be a 2-year pilot implementation of MP, with longitudinal cohorts of YMSM in Beirut and Jounieh, the latter being the control community. Primary outcomes will be unprotected anal sex and HIV testing, with secondary outcomes being engagement in peer outreach, and perceived peer norms related to condom use and HIV testing.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALMpowerment

MP is a multi-level intervention that reaches out to all YMSM in a community by mobilizing men to encourage their friends to reduce risk behavior and join the program (informal outreach), along with holding social activities that promote safe sex (formal outreach). MP provides YMSM with skills, support and confidence to find solutions within themselves for sexual health, and seeks to affirm the validity and rights of same-sex behavior and identities.

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Intervention model description

Intervention will be evaluated with community cohort and use of pre- post-intervention analysis plan

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

MALE

Age

18 Years to 29 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* men aged 18-29, who have had anal sex with men in the past 6 months

Exclusion criteria

* not residing in Lebanon

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
condomless anal sex	past 3 months	condomless anal sex with HIV+ or unknown status partners in past 3 months will be assessed via questionnaire
HIV testing	past 6 months	Variable will be assessed via questionnaire

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026